How preposterous of Stephane Dion to define the Conservative government as underachiever based solely on one poll result. His cockiness isn't even funny anymore, nor is the Liberals' feebleness. As a successful politician (he seems to style himself such) he should have learned in his long honorable career that the only poll that counts happens at the ballot box, and that for centuries man has known the simple truth: statistics is just another form of lies.
The simple reality that the Liberals are trailing the Conservatives is a sufficient indictment of his policies and his tenure as Leader. However controversial Grits make the Tory legislation sound, Canadians are not ready to board Dion's Titanic, nor will they in the near or far future. Furthermore, excessive emphasis on opinion polls, Mr Dion should have learned from his Labour Party inspirers, conveys an impression of lacking determination and focus on policy.
If Mr Dion were a true leader and true to his party's ideals he'd whip his MPs to bring down the government instead of waiting for favorable opinion polls while betraying his voters on absolutely unacceptable bills from a Liberal perspective. Being a leader involves knowing how to lose with dignity and a clear conscience.
Dion's policy of abstaining isn't "rigid", he says. I guess "runny porridge" describes it better.
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Re Statistics
As Twain said, "People use statistics the way that drunks use lamp posts - for support nto illumination".
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